What Thanksgiving Day is complete without potatoes? Boiled, mashed, roasted, and puréed, sweet or savory, rare will be the Thanksgiving feast that lacks one or more of these varieties. Like the turkey, also a New World endemic species, potatoes are certain to have made a vital contribution to the Pilgrims’ diet on their arrival to […]
Next week, Floridians are in for an astronomical treat. Two of them in fact – though it will take some effort and a little lack of sleep to experience both. The rise of a Supermoon in the East on May 26 at 9:00 pm will be followed by a partial lunar eclipse as the moon
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Parade Magazine used to arrive in one of the local papers in Toronto when I was a grad student. At the time, I was busy trying to write new statistical software for problems for which there were as-yet no statistical solutions (minimum spanning trees, coevolution, etc). Famously, in 1990, Marilyn vos Savant answered a Parade
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TRIGGER WARNING: This post has pictures of delicious animal meat. So, I’ve been “cooking for one” for about half of my time these last 2 weeks. That “one” being me, of course. “Cooking for one” can be a form of self care – a reason for being, and a place to focus positive energy. It
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I’m not really on Twitter anymore. I think Stephen Fry got it right. After having been put under the microscope himself, he was done with that “stalking ground for the sanctimoniously self-righteous”. Certainly, that was my experience back in 2016 and, tragically, much more recently too. More on that later. However, I did check Twitter
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The rise of Mike Pence to the vice presidency of the United States of America was an improbable one (allegedly due to a flat-tire). Is his failure to achieve the presidency, part of an improbably “unusual streak in the annals of American history” for Hoosier veeps? Dan Carden notes quite rightly that there have been
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